Rhianna Patrick

Rhianna Patrick spent most of her early life growing up in the bauxite mining community of Weipa on Queensland's Cape York before her parents made the move back to her birth place of Brisbane.

Rhianna joined the ABC in 2002 as a news and current affairs cadet based in the Sydney newsroom.

Since then sheís worked at the ABC Tropical North newsroom (Mackay), as the breakfast newsreader for triple j news and as a Researcher/Associate Producer on ABC TVís now retired Indigenous documentary programme, Message Stick.

Rhianna has spent the last five years as the Presenter of the national Indigenous radio programme, Speaking Out and recently worked as a fill in presenter on Afternoons (612 Brisbane) and RNís national Indigenous arts and culture radio programme, Awaye!

Rhianna is an avid avgeek and also co-presents an ABC digital radio programme, CanvasWings with her husband (and former Speaking Out producer), David White which covers vintage aircraft, Australian aviation history and anyone restoring this heritage worldwide.